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Paper, 'On a new fulminating platinum' by Edmund Davy

Reference number: PT/11/9

Date: 20 December 1816

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new fulminating platinum'.

Written by Davy in Cork, Ireland. Communicated by Sir Humphry Davy. Read 13 February 1817.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/11/9
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20 December 1816
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18 pages
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Manuscript

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Edmund Davy

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Edmund Davy, Paper, 'On a new fulminating platinum' by Edmund Davy, 20 December 1816, PT/11/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_9/paper-on-a-new-fulminating-platinum-by-edmund-davy, accessed on 12 October 2024

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